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undergraduate students of the English Education Department in one of state universities in Bandung in writing an argumentative essay.
1.5 Significance of the Study
a. For the students
This study is expected to be a learning process, reflection, as well as a reference, especially for the undergraduate students of the English
Education Department in one of state universities in Bandung regarding grammatical errors in their argumentative essay, so that the students can
know how to overcome it while improving their written English grammar accuracy in the future.
b. For the lecturersteachers
While this study gives information about students‟ written grammatical errors, then it is expected that the lecturers can give better solutions in ways
of either improving or strengthening the students‟ grammar skill, accuracy,
understanding and knowledge. c.
For the researcher This study is expected to get and to give more information as well as
knowledge about students‟ common written grammatical errors in their argumentative essay, for the researcher plans to be a better teacherlecturer.
1.6 Research Method
1.6.1 Research Design
The research design of this study is conducted by using a descriptive qualitative design. According to Fraenkel and Wallen 2012, descriptive
qualitative research is a study to describe the conditions that exist properly with no analysis of the relationships among variables.
To begin with, the researcher identified what kinds of grammatical errors made by the students in their writing argumentative essay. Afterwards, the
researcher classified and analyzed types of grammatical errors that the students
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made in their essays. At last, the researcher went through the analysis of how deep and far the students‟ understandingknowledge toward Basic English Grammar
through the result of their essay, multiple-choice test, and interview.
1.6.2 Research Participants
The participants in this study are nine undergraduate students of the English Education Department in one of state universities in Bandung. All of the
students come from semester eight, those who have taken English Foundation
Grammar course.
The samples were chosen due to the limitation of time, energy, and fund considerations of the study.
1.6.3 Data Collection
This part discusses the ways or steps of searching and collecting some data needed in this study. The data collection used some instruments and steps. The
instruments used were writing test, multiple-choice test and semi-structured interview, in which those were combined into one method
called „triangulation‟.
1.6.4 Instrument
Since the study employed triangulation method, so there were three kinds of instruments here which consisted of writing, multiple-choice test and interview.
These instruments were used in order to meticulously get the description and deeper analysis
of students‟ grammatical errors in writing an argumentative essay. Here are brief descriptions for each instrument:
1. Writing Test
The students were given a topic : “Should National ExamUN be banned?”.
Each student was supposed to make an argumentative essay based on the topic given, at least 600-700 words. Afterwards, it would be analyzed to identify
what kinds of grammatical errors had been made.
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2. Multiple-choice Test
Each student was given a set of multiple-choice test consists of ten questions concerning about grammar. The multiple-choice test
‟s validity and reliability had already been tested to 30 students from one class of the English Education
Department. These 30 students were taken due to their time availability and their passing the English Foundation Grammar course, as well as their same
level in semester eight. Then, the results were finally checked and analyzed, like how many errors the students made from those ten multiple-choice
questions. 3.
Interview The interview was done to each student and the results were put as additional
information to the data. The interview technique employed here was semi- structured interview. Semi-structured interview was done by asking a series of
structured questions and investigating deeply into getting more additional information by using open-form questions Fraenkel and Wallen, 2012. Thus,
by this technique of interview, hopefully, the data and the information obtained could be more accurate and specific in elaborating the result. After
analyzing while identifying the grammatical errors in the students‟ essay so
long with the multiple-choice result as well, then each student was interviewed andor asked some questions regarding their background, knowledge and
understanding of Basic English Grammar.
1.6.5 Data Analysis
